Problems with icu - 3.8

[Yoshihiro Ota]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:23:37 -0700
James <oscartheduck at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 21:14 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> > Atanas Gendov wrote:
> > > Greetings to all from FreeBSD Ports!!! :)
> > > I have some problems with icu - 3.8. After portupgrade of icu and some
> > > others packages I can't start Gnome. Because of Gnome needs module from icu
> > > - 3.6. Unfortunately there is no new port for gdm which doesn't have depends
> > > on icu-3.6.
> > 
> > Lots of people are getting bitten by the effects of the bump in the
> > libicu* shlib ABI version numbers -- there really should be a note
> > in UPDATING about it.  It affects all sorts of different packages --
> > I've even got one system where it took out OpenLDAP.
> 
> Do you know who to ask for the note? I was bitten by it, but fortunately there
> had just been a large thread in questions@ about it. It does seem to be a 
> common issue.
> 
> James


Why are so many people are bitten by this?  Is that the jobs of port-upgrading
tool to safe copy these libraries to compat so that all programs using
the old libraries works?

Hiro